20 Bible Verses about Excommunication
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If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over; but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.read more.
I tell you truly, Whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
I will give you the keys of the Realm of heaven; whatever you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."
It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife! And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime! For my part, present with you in spirit though absent in body, I have already, as in your presence, passed sentence on such an offender as this,read more.
by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; I have met with you in spirit, and by the power of our Lord Jesus I have consigned that individual to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?
What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him! Outsiders it is no business of mine to judge. No, you must judge those who are inside the church, for yourselves; as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.
If a certain individual has been causing pain, he has been causing pain not so much to me as to all of you ??at anyrate (for I am not going to overstate the case) to a section of you. This censure from the majority is severe enough for the individual in question, so that instead of censuring you should now forgive him and comfort him, in case the man is overwhelmed by excessive remorse.read more.
So I beg you to reinstate him in your love. For my aim in writing was simply to test you, to see if you were absolutely obedient. If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes, in case Satan should take advantage of our position ??for I know his man?uvres!
If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over; but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.
Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.
In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral. I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether. What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!read more.
Outsiders it is no business of mine to judge. No, you must judge those who are inside the church, for yourselves; as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.
Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.
But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile. After a first and a second warning have no more to do with a factious person; you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.
Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men
And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!
as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.
So when I come, I shall bring up what he is doing, babbling against me with wicked words ??and, not satisfied with words, he refuses to welcome the brothers, checks those who want to welcome them, and excommunicates them from the church.
These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.
From Thematic Bible
Excommunication » Excommunication as practised among the jews
They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.
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